Amazon Web Services – AWS

CEO - Andrew Jassy
Founder - Amazon.com, Inc.
Website URL - https://aws.amazon.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com,offers a suite of cloud-computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.

These services operate from 16 geographical regions across the world.
They include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3".
As of 2016 AWS has more than 70 services, spanning a wide range, including :

Amazon markets AWS as a service to provide large computing capacity quicker and cheaper than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
As of 2016 AWS has more than 70 services, spanning a wide range, including compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools and tools for the Internet of things.
Amazon markets AWS as a service to provide large computing capacity quicker and cheaper than a client company building an actual physical server farm.
Gartner recommends AWS for all use cases that run well in a virtualized environment, but notes that some particularly highly secure applications, strictly compliant applications or complex enterprise applications (such as SAP business applications) may require special attention to architecture.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud -> also known as "EC2" is an IaaS service providing virtual servers controllable by an API Xen.
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk-> provides a PaaS service for hosting applications
Amazon Lambda -> runs code in response to AWS internal or external events such as http requests transparently providing the resource required

Amazon Route -> scalable Managed DNS service providing Domain Name Services.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) -> logically isolated set of AWS resources which can be connected using a VPN connection.
AWS Direct Connect -> dedicated network connections into AWS data centers.
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) -> automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
AWS Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) -> provides up to 20Gbit/s of network bandwidth to an Amazon EC2 instance.
analysis by connecting to AWS or non-AWS data sources.

Amazon CloudFront -> a content delivery network (CDN) for distributing objects to so-called "edge locations" near the requester.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) -> provides scalable object storage accessible from a Web Service interface.
Amazon Glacier -> provides long-term storage options (compared to S3). High redundancy and availability, but low-frequent access times. Intended for archiving data.
AWS Storage Gateway -> an iSCSI block storage virtual appliance with cloud-based backup.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) -> provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2.
AWS Import/Export -> accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) -> a file storage service for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

Amazon DynamoDB -> provides a scalable, low-latency NoSQL online Database Service backed by SSDs.
Amazon ElastiCache -> provides in-memory caching for web applications. This is Amazon's implementation of Memcached and Redis.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) -> provides scalable database servers with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL support.
Amazon Redshift -> provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with column-based storage and multi-node compute.
Amazon SimpleDB ->provides developers to run queries on structured data. It operates in concert with EC2 and S3.
AWS Data Pipeline -> provides reliable service for data transfer between different AWS compute and storage services
Amazon Aurora -> provides a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that has been created specifically for the AWS infrastructure that claims faster speeds and lower costs that are realized in larger databases.

AWS CloudFormation -> provides a declarative template-based Infrastructure as Code model for configuring AWS.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk -> provides deployment and management of applications in the cloud.
AWS OpsWorks -> provides configuration of EC2 services using Chef.
AWS CodeDeploy -> provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.

Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) -> provides authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
AWS Directory Service -> provides managed service that allows connection to AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud.
Amazon CloudWatch -> provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2. AWS Management Console (AWS Console)
Amazon CloudHSM - > provides support to meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) -> provides managed service to create and control encryption keys.
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) -> provides highly scalable, fast, container management service, using on Docker containers.

Amazon API Gateway -> provides a service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
Amazon CloudSearch -> provides basic full-text search and indexing of textual content.
Amazon DevPay -> provides billing and account management system for applications that developers have built atop
Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder (ETS) -> provides video transcoding of S3 hosted videos, marketed primarily as a way to
convert source files into mobile-ready versions.
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) -> provides bulk and transactional email sending.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) -> provides a hosted message queue for web applications.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) -> provides a hosted multi-protocol "push" messaging for applications.
Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF)-> provides a workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications.
Amazon Cognito -> provides a user identity and data synchronization service that securely manages and synchronizes app data for users across their mobile devices.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 -> provides a low-latency service that streams and resources intensive applications and games from the cloud using NICE DVC technology.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) -> Provides a PaaS service delivering Hadoop for running MapReduce queries framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.
Amazon Machine Learning-> provides a service that assists developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology.
Amazon Kinesis-> provides real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams.
Amazon Elasticsearch -> provides fully managed Elasticsearch and Kibana services.
Amazon QuickSight -> provides business analytics service that provides visualizations and ad-hoc

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